Delegate’s hat retrieved from flooded Cedar Rapids home

By James Q. Lynch – A hat rescued from a flooded Cedar Rapids home is drawing attention here at the Republican National Convention.

Iowa delegate Rose Eaton of Cedar Rapids has been wearing a “Dutch’s Dollies” boater hat a friend, Rosemary Harvey, rescued from her Time Check home after the June flood.
Eaton, 78, and a former Square D employee for 33 years, has modified the front with a McCain sign, but proudly displays the original Reagan sign on the back.

“It’s the past and the future of the party,” a fellow delegate suggested.

When Harvey found the hat in her attic she thought Eaton would enjoy wearing it at the convention.
She was right.

“I’m having a lot of fun with it,” Eaton says.